Example sentences of "they have [vb pp] the same [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's so many good bands and good records being made but the audience for them has remained the same size . ’ |
| 2 | There 's so many good bands and good records being made but the audience for them has remained the same size . ’ |
| 3 | But although they 'd pursued the same career , that career had taken them in different directions , their meetings infrequent . |
| 4 | Only afterwards is it plain that , for the most part , they 've given the same answers they 've supplied to the press for years . |
| 5 | They 've done the same thing . |
| 6 | And obviously therefore , cos they obviously therefore , they 've got the same improvements on here as well . |
| 7 | They 've got the same squad of fifteen who did so well last week . |
| 8 | W three , no I , I think that , that , that must be cos they 've got the same G here |
| 9 | They 've got a different atomic weight , cos they 've got a different number of neutrons , but they got the same number of protons and they 've got the same pattern of electrons , and the pattern of those outer electrons is what decides its chemical properties . |
| 10 | And yet they 've got the same amount of time |
| 11 | Erm we do n't see a great deal of difference that they 've had the same problem as we 've had , in that we ran out of time before we could put the er finished act together properly . |
| 12 | I think people should stick with what suits them , even if they 've had the same thing for years . |
| 13 | At Tiverton in 1809 they had claimed they had received the same rate for 300 years ! |
| 14 | Then , like a shoal of fish moving within a net , Rose and the girls started to clear the table , to brush away crumbs , to wash , to dry , to return each thing to its own place , all done with a muted energy ; whispers , jokes , little scolding asides — ‘ No , that goes in the other place ’ or reminisce how they had made the same mistake before in order to soften any harshness in the scold , bending low in apologetic laughter . |
| 15 | Over the years they had attended the same victuallers ' functions , and on every occasion Harcourt had kept very much to his own table . |
| 16 | Perhaps they had attended the same college : the college whose colours were cerise and silver . |
| 17 | None of the pupils seemed to guess that they had heard the same speaker more than once . |
| 18 | The two men exchanged experiences and found that they had heard the same noises of heavy breathing and the kick on the door . |
| 19 | They had conducted the same argument , at intervals , since the days after they had realised that they were isolated on an alien world . |
| 20 | He had kept the same job , they had lived in the same house , they had rented the same seaside bungalow for a summer holiday , year in year out . |
| 21 | If they had polled the same plurality as they commanded in 1987 , there would have been no overall party majority . |
| 22 | They have done the same thing to us as Ward did — they suspended us . |
| 23 | Having publicly committed themselves to extending legislation to protect residents in small private residential care homes , the Government left it to a Back-Bench Member to bring in a Bill , and they have done the same thing again . |
| 24 | They will need to check whether they have made the same amount of each and if they are not able to count , then they can correspond one-to-one ‘ tops ’ with ‘ bottoms ’ . |
| 25 | They include , to give just a few examples , realizing that they have re-read the same page of a book three times without taking any of it in ; nearly getting knocked over crossing the road ; yelling ‘ Tie ! ’ at a pupil they do n't know ; noticing that they are both reading a magazine and watching the television while having their evening meal ; spotting the line of empty wine bottles that has accrued since the weekend . |
| 26 | Not many industrial sites can say that they have serviced the same industry for over 100 years . |
| 27 | ‘ Some of them have had the same experience , and here she 's in a familiar place doing familiar work and I think feeling closer to Whitey . ’ |